{"id":3421,"date":"2022-03-11T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2022-03-11T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:25:31","slug":"spawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/03\/11\/spawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Spawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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…frogspawn this morning near the crossover between horse and pedestrian paths.<\/p>\n

In Sunday’s lectionary<\/a>, it’s written in Genesis that Abram “believed the LORD; and the LORD reckoned it to him as righteousness.”<\/em> When I read the rest of this passage, I see that Abram (soon to become Abraham) was obsessed with leaving a physical inheritance, his literal descendants. Paul makes much of this verse, in Romans 4 and Galatians 3 and elsewhere – and turns it to a very different purpose. What matters is not your physical inheritance – it’s not your parentage or ancestry or race – it is faith. The People of God is now wide open – to everyone who chooses God, regardless of inheritance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…frogspawn this morning near the crossover between horse and pedestrian paths. In Sunday’s lectionary, it’s written in Genesis that Abram “believed the LORD; and the LORD reckoned it to him as righteousness.” When I read the rest of this passage, I see that Abram (soon to become Abraham) was obsessed with leaving a physical inheritance, … <\/p>\n

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